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PHILANTHROPIC ACTIVITIES

School of Mechanical Engineering

donated Rs. 1,00,000 (One Lakh only)
to Universal Higher Education Trust
(UHET) – Higher Education for All to

Realize Transformation of the Society
(HEARTS) scheme.

TECH-CHALLENGE

Recently there was an attempt to re-haul farming practices within
the country. In particular, Tamilnadu being rice bowl of India has
received particular attention.
It was learnt that the Government of several States incurred food
grain losses although there was surplus production. This problem
call for renewed engagement with many stake holders and
streamlining of procedures requires the use of optimization
methods coupled with new AI methodologies. A Challenge
confronting engineers requires answers that are multi-layered.
 How can AI be used to quantify expected food grain storage loss state wise?
 Some current problems that farmers face in India are
 How to train farmers to use new inventions for minimizing losses from spray
drift in pesticide application on crops
 How to educate farmers to cope with the vagaries of nature ?

Ideas/Solutions/Proposals for the Tech-Challenge can be sent to mechnovit@gmail.com

A surprise is in store for the winning entry !

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